Qualities of a Brahmana!

Verse 1.16.31 (Saci Suta Prji):

* This section of the verses are the dialogue between mother cow and Dharma.
* Krishna's presence gave transcendental happiness to Mother Earth.
* Srila Prabhupada comments: When God-made varṇāśrama-dharma, which is strictly meant for developing animal consciousness into human consciousness and human consciousness into godly consciousness, is broken by advancement of foolishness, the whole system of peaceful and progressive life is at once disturbed. In the age of Kali, the first attack of the venomous snake strikes against the God-made varnasrama-dharma, and thus a person properly qualified as a brāhmaṇa is called a śūdra, and a śūdra by qualification is passing as a brahmana, all on a false birthright claim.
* Mother Cow, is lamenting a failure of this system.
* Today, primarily it is more based on the birth, rather than on qualification.
* SP: A devotee is neither a ksatriya nor a brahmana, he is just a servant of the Lord.
* We have to realize that Lord Krishna is the destroyer of all obstacles on the path of self-realization.
* Dharma is standing on the four legs of truthfulness, mercy, cleanliness and austerity. But these legs are being destroyed now meat eating, illicit sex, intoxication and gambling.
* Nice Parable: Of the creation of donkey, dog, monkey and human being.
Moral: Human life is a package of different animal life, devoid of any spiritual realizations. Unless one primarily tries to acquire self-realization.